Haystack Mountain Goat Dairy expanding Longmont operations
LONGMONT — Haystack Mountain Goat Dairy has leased an 8,800-square-foot industrial building at 505 Weaver Park Road in Longmont where it will expand its cheese-making operations.
The cheese producer will continue to operate its fresh cheese-making facility at 1121 Colorado Ave., also in Longmont, where it maintains a retail outlet called The Creamery. It will move its cheese-aging operations along with the production of rennet cheese to the recently leased building. Rennet is an enzyme used in cheese making that acts on milk proteins to form the curd.
John Scaggs, director of sales and marketing, said the company has been “busting at the seams. … We’ve experienced increased demand for our products resulting in double-digit growth during the past few years,” he said.
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Scaggs said the growth reflects what he calls the health benefits of goat milk.
“People are beginning to understand that goat milk and cheese made from goat milk is easier to digest than that made from cow milk,” Scaggs said.
The dairy will retrofit the new building in phases and expects to have the first phase operational by midsummer, Scaggs said.
Haystack, in business since 1989, stopped maintaining its herd of goats at its farm in Niwot in 2008 when founder Jim Schott retired and sold the farm.
All of the goat milk for Haystack’s cheese now is sourced from the Skyline Correctional Center goat dairy in Cañon City. The employees at the correctional center are inmates who work for Colorado Correctional Industries. The dairy was established as a joint venture between Haystack Mountain and CCI. It maintains a herd of 1,300 goats.
The cow milk used for Haystack’s Buttercup mixed-milk cheese is supplied by Windsor Dairy and Aurora Organic Dairy.
LONGMONT — Haystack Mountain Goat Dairy has leased an 8,800-square-foot industrial building at 505 Weaver Park Road in Longmont where it will expand its cheese-making operations.
The cheese producer will continue to operate its fresh cheese-making facility at 1121 Colorado Ave., also in Longmont, where it maintains a retail outlet called The Creamery. It will move its cheese-aging operations along with the production of rennet cheese to the recently leased building. Rennet is an enzyme used in cheese making that acts on milk proteins to form the curd.
John Scaggs, director of sales and marketing, said the company has been “busting at…
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